... or are the locals really rude?

[pfft]

Have just moved to country village outside somewhat la-di-da town where we work.

Went to the local shop. Am now too scared to ever go there again.

Picked up the milk from the shelf, it had a spare label round the handle, which was wet with condensation - it slipped out of my hand and smashed onto the floor, spilling milk everywhere. I moved the vegetables away from the advancing tide of milk, and went to the counter to say I was terribly sorry but I'd just spilt milk and did they have anything to clean it up with. Woman appeared out of the back of the shop
and shoved me aside and said impatiently "Get out the f*ing way, SOMEONE'S going to have to clean that up", and the man at the counter said "oh you're TERRIBLY sorry [posh sing-song accent] are you. Well there's a Waitrose [posh accent] on the other side of [la-di-da town] for people like you, why don't you go there and spill milk and rearrange the shop how you like it, next time."

I said nothing and paid for 2 lots of milk. The man snatched the money out of my hand and scowled at me. The shop full of people all stared at me.

I thought "heavens I'm getting paranoid", looked up from staring at the floor, and realised they were all still staring/scowling at me.

How often do people spill milk in Sainsburys?
Is it such a crime?

I don't understand how someone can not go utterly postal if someone shoves you, swears and calls you names.

I would rant my feckin tits off. Go on and on about local shops for local people in a sarcastic voice and shops closing down cos of the twats running them. Followed by 'I am a fucking local you twat cos I fucking live here'.

I may be grumpy cos of the weather but I'd go fucking nutsoid if someone treated me like that.

pfft - go on tell us the county.

how rude! I am guessing they are just rude people, probably to you today becasue you are not local, and to other people on other days because of a variety of other reasons.

So, probably not personal, but very very rude

Tell us, so we know not to move there.

please tell me it's not Dereham-area. My dsis has just moved there.

I think it's outside York.

If these things have really happened, I would be planning a move pretty damn sharpish

Cambridgeshire?

North or South of Derby?

maybe you should write a sarcastic letter to the local rag! Ours always has letters in in that are outing antisocial behaviour etc etc

I'd tie up one on those sheets between lamp posts before I left, with 'so long, suckers' daubed all over it

you have been SPAT at by middle-aged people!?! Where on earth is this? I'd be tempted to carry a BIG rifle around with me everywhere I go.

Is it Devon/Cornwall?

in any case YANBU but you are living in the wrong place. Don't know if the school is going to be a pleasant place for your ds under those circumstances.

I expect they are angry about property prices shooting through the roof. Still SPITTING at a woman on a bike simply because she exists is very strange

We have to be scientific about this. Here is a list of Waitrose stores

I am guessing the town is Abingdon as there is a Waitrose at Abingdon and it is near Oxford (multinational university).

Spot on Lizzylou...

They're probably just hot, tired, grumpy, taking it out on the nearest target. It is hot here. But it is part of a wider pattern of xenophobia that I find very disturbing, and straight incomprehensible. In a similar kind of town, say in Canada or New Zealand, the locals tend to ask you about where you're from, and what you're doing at the (big multinational university) and then tell you about the local sights, their family, their grandkids, etc. if they twig you're not from round here.

I used to live in a different european country where the locals also treated non-locals very horribly, but that was slightly more expected (if no more understandable) because the non-locals were Turkish/Armenian migrants who essentially lived in a ghetto surrounded by smug white middle-class people.

Oh please tell us!

I want to go there and spit back at them

Ooh, ooh! Is it Sandford in Hot Fuzz?

..although it could be Cambridge as well as there is a Waitrose there.

Cambridgeshire? That's really shocked me!

move

Take someone brave with you, get a huge basket of their most expensive items, put them on the counter and when they ask for payment.... say 'fuck me, I thought I was in Waitrose... I think I'll go there now!!'

Cambridgeshire, so let's see what murky cess-pools we have round there. Maybe they'd like the university uplifted and moved elsewhere?

Oi!! I'm Welsh!! Grr. Blinkin' foreigners (South Wales, btw)

Wasn't Royston Vasey based on Saffron Walden (Cambs)? Lol.

ProfYaffle? - do I detect irony in your post there?

Was it an independent shop or part of a chain? If it was part of chain, I'd write to complain. their behaviour to you was disgusting.